Today’s Goals Compare the results of your Publication Analyses to highlight the unique strategies used by each students’ publication Consider the four factors of style and how they can be used in composition and revision of informative writing Discuss strategies for writing about research results in different publication types while maintaining credibility

Group Activity: Publication Comparison In your unit 3 groups Share the results of your Minor Essay 3: Publication Analysis, focusing on the general publication style, visual rhetoric, and document design strategies (rather than the article summaries) Answer the following questions: 1. What visual rhetoric and document design strategies do these publication types share? 2. What is one unique strategy employed by each publication? (per student) 3. List the publications in order from formal and pedantic to informal and colloquial, and give one reason or example why each publication was given its position

Style - Review Consider style as a tool for explaining genre Style factors: Sentence structure: long or short? Varied or monotonous? Types of words: pedantic or colloquial? Abstract or concrete? Voice or Persona: 1 st or 3 rd person? Expert or layperson? Tone: Formal or informal? Humorous or serious? Review on pg. 68 if necessary Secondary Style factor: Research discussion Different publications will have different styles for discussing research and may vary in their use of 1 st vs 3 rd person, passivization, and linguistic distance from the performed methods

Group Activity: Stylistic Revisions In your unit 3 groups Read through the passages “Four Powerful Strategies...” On pg and “Use a Voice Matched to Your...” starting on page 74 of the A&B textbook Do the activity “Revising Passages to Create a More Effective Style”

Group Activity – Research Results In your unit 3 groups Share the results of your nearly completed research and answer the questions below for each student 1. How do your results align with your original hypothesis thus far? Do they seem to support or disprove it? 2. What particular question/answer/observation seems to be the strongest in support of your thesis or hypothesis? Why? 3. Based on these results and your original expectations, create a thesis or main idea from your research that you can use to guide your informative article.

Talking About Research- Objectivity & Ethos Different publication types and individual publications will have different strategies for discussing research Some writers will want to closely associate themselves with the research conducted, which can show their own personal involvement to establish ethos Other writers will need to distance their personal involvement in the research, highlighting the experiment or study itself Four main strategies: 1 st person singular, 1 st person plural, 3 rd person, passivized

Talking About Research Newspaper/Magazine Scholarly Article/Research Report Uses combination of 1 st and 3 rd person for different purposes When discussing interviews, 1 st person is usually the preferred Will often use first person plural to discuss the use of surveys and observations, drawing ethos from their institution Uses 3 rd person and passivized sentences to emphasize objectivity

Talking About Research 1 st Person Singular Links writer most closely with research Useful for interviews and in less formal newspapers and magazines Avoid with surveys or in scholarly articles and research reports Ex: “I interviewed several townsfolk on the matter....” 1 st Person Plural Closely links writer to research (but not as close as 1 st person singular) Similar patterns to 1 st person singular Increased ethos by associating the writer with his/her institution or company Ex: “We at the Herald interviewed several politicians....”

Talking About Research 3 rd Person Creates distance from writer/researcher to show objectivity Heavily used in the hard sciences, with surveys, or in scholarly articles and research reports Less common in newspapers, magazines, or less formal writing styles Will often use “this study” or “this experiment” as a subject Ex: “This experiment will attempt to prove....” Passivized Greatest distance from writer/research but not as commonly used as 3 rd person One of the most used styles for research reports Uses English passivization structure with inverted subject and object Ex: “An increase in violent behavior was observed....” (as opposed to “I observed an increase in violent behavior)

Group Activity – Writing about research In your unit 3 groups Answer the questions below for each student 1. Which strategy for talking about research is most commonly used by your group’s publication type? Why do you think that strategy would be used? 2. Based on your research method, publication type, and experiences reading that publication, which of the 4 strategies we discussed will be best suited for each student?

Homework: Finish conducting Primary research Final research results due 4/7 Informative Article Introduction Due 4/7 Draft the first page of your informative article (200+ words) For magazines and newspapers, this should include your lead and attention grabbing strategy For research reports, this must include your abstract Make sure to use the document design and visual rhetoric strategies of your publication